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Early Warning Signs of Project Failure
Let’s be honest. Projects do not become distressed overnight. They go from “green” to “yellow” to “red” and along the way, there are plenty of warning signs that failure may be imminent or that immediate changes may be necessary. Ignoring warning signs will undoubtedly result in serious trouble for your project. The earlier the warning…
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PMP Quick Study: Project Risk and The Risk Register
Making decisions in a situation of total certainty is a piece of cake. Unfortunately, project management can involve a lot of risk and uncertainty and very little cake. In Project Management, Risk is an uncertain event that, if it occurs has positive or negative effect on one or more project objectives. Managing risk is an…
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5 Megaprojects to Watch in 2016
If you really want to get a grip on the importance of stakeholder management, it’s good to think mega on your PMP exam. Megaprojects are undertakings with long, complex, and critical front ends. They are usually very expensive and quite public. Here, initiating and planning are key (remember mega project, mega mistakes!) Watch these megaprojects…
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5 PMP Exam Tips to Master With Your Morning Coffee
Situational questions on the PMP® exam are hard, especially if your experience as a project manager has been with an organization that doesn’t commit to PMI’s ideas word for word. Do what you must at your job, but commit these mottos to memory for the PMP exam. Human Resources: Confronting isn’t bad—it’s a problem solving-approach…
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Test Prep Tuesday: Know Your Quality Tools
Can you name the Project Management Quality charts? How about what you use them for? Project managers juggle plenty of project data and for good reason: it’s potentially very useful in making decisions to implement continuous process improvement. What’s a project manager to do then? Visualize, of course. The below charts/diagrams are put to good…
